by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I wrote on Facebook’s social media service Threads:
“I swear to God I’m going to film ICE if they come into my neighborhood.”
Now, I thought this was not only rather benign, but I also thought it was obvious what the point of the statement was — just doing that obviously entails some risk.
But, not, this being a social media platform in 2026, I had the extremes of both sides essentially telling me to drop dead. This reminds me of the old Usenet quip about “Go ye not to Usenet for advice, because you will only get, yes, not and try another newsgroup.”
Anyway, I guess I learned my lesson, huh. It definitely seemed like my dumb comment was about to go viral until I deleted it. (Which, of course, is why I deleted it.)
But the point remains — I really will put myself in harms way if ICE comes into my neighborhood. They keep getting closer and closer to my little hamlet and I could just see them start to knock on doors under the right conditions.
Ugh.
